Big thanks to Vivianne95 and Red05 for reviewing many apologies for the long wait. I have finished exams now so yay new chapters.
Enjoy :) SuchaNarcissist
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§Parseltongue§
Bold is notes or screaming, it should be pretty obvious which.
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Take your pride, take your vanity,
Can't you see that your ego's empty?,
I will turn, I will walk away,
I won't become you.
Perfect Life - Red
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Hadrian's good mood didn't last ten seconds into the morning of September the first, primarily because school but also because of the guard outside his door waiting to collect him for the Hogwarts Express. After the disappearance- and presumed foul play- of three of the Weasley brood, security had been improved. The new safeguards had Dumbledore's ineptitude written all over them.
Honestly informing a corrupt ministry of where the supposed saviour lives, after first putting him there to avoid detection, barmy absolutely barmy. To then explain the nature of the wards surrounding the house, basically explaining to everybody who wanted to kill the chosen one exactly how to get past the 'infallible' wards wasn't just handing out an invitation but also a key to the front door.
Not that Petunia couldn't look after herself but some wizards are sneakier than others and potions in cups, or touch activated jinxes on doorknobs could be deadly to someone with no way of accessing Saint Mungos. Therefore after a short discussion it was decided that Petunia would start looking for a new home through Gringotts in the autumn month, also selling their old home through Gringotts- marketed as the home of the boy-who-lived it would make a substantial profit. This was after deciding to sue the ministry for theft of course, considering the war memorial in Godric's hollow had been built on Potter land that the ministry had claimed as their own and preserved. Not that they were going to live there but money is money, and more money builds stronger wards.
Therefore Hadrian didn't expect his day to improve; however his mother's goodbye words of "have fun and wear sunglasses" led to an unexpected smile that startled the assigned auror guard. The good mood that came with the thought of untraceable murder and large violent snakes was shutdown, upon entry to the station wherein he was quickly set upon by the rotund banshee and family.
Accompanied by screaming wails of "Harry, oh Harry" and bone crushing hugs, Hadrian made his way onto platform nine and three quarters. Once the entire Weasley clan was through the barrier and out of sight of muggles more talk ensued, talk consisted of questions about his welfare, insults about his mother, complaints about his weight, introductions to other family members and no room to comment from Harry himself. This was however accompanied by the statement of "Harry we understand how devastated you must be about Ron and the twins, and Dumbledore suggested we give you some little something's to remember them by, as Ginny didn't want Scabbers we figured we'd give him to you, and from the twins, we figured as you knew them best from their pranks this joke parchment is for you." Here the Weasley matriarch broke off into sobs and her husband continued "It insults everybody who tries to use it and we thought it might provide a few laughs."
A free rat, a sheet of insulting parchment and a home cooked meal later and Hadrian was finally able to get onto the train. Knowing little about rat care he decided that he would leave it in its cage until Hogwarts, wherein he would proceed to feed it on a healthy diet; after all one never knows when a lab rat might come in handy. Of course after inspecting said cage and said rat Harry decided to test out one of his new spells on it, the unbreakable one, the cage seemed rather flimsy and Hadrian didn't want to do a Neville (referring to the constant loss of Trevor the toad), this combined with the highest level locking charm he knew- in case someone tried to release the rat- resulted in a nice sturdy home for his new test subject- sorry pet.
A few minutes after that and a chapter into his book for the journey a strange blond girl arrived. After a two minute staring competition the girl broke the silence opening with "That's a very nice rat you have there Hadrian, seems a bit human to be honest what with the way he's an animagus and all." After such an intriguing opening line there was no way Hadrian was letting her wander off.
"Please do join me; I'm sure Hermione will be along in a few minutes do, also please explain."
"The rat doesn't feel like a rat, and a rat that isn't a rat, is logically not a rat, therefore following the laws of Sherwin Domes: 'when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth' so animagus."
"Apart from questioning whether this is some form of conspiracy theory, I have a few questions" was the reply from Hadrian "First off what's your name, second don't you mean Sherlock Holmes and third are there no other possibilities for a rat not being a rat than an animagus?"
"Number one: of course its a conspiracy theory, everything involving the government is just a small radish in the large field of the rotfang conspiracy, secondly I'm Luna Pandora Lovegood, answer three is that a great detective goes by many names and fourth is yes but a rat not being a rat for twelve years but still persisting in being the same rat leads credence to the idea of animagus over transfiguration and potion as most would wear off over twelve years, however considering it could quite rightly be reapplied yearly by the government to prevent a wrackspurt infestation and have the side effect of ratification resulting in increasing vermin levels, however that's just silly Harry."
"Well Luna, avoiding the fact that that speech brought up more questions than answers, I believe we should probably report this rat for checking- maybe professor McGonagall, as an animagus herself it would make sense for her to know the reveal spell. However I believe I shall have to wait half a year or so, after all I must first discover that the rat is not acting normally and I would hate to have to buy a new lab rat this early in the year."
"Oh yes one must be careful when buying rats, ones bought in September like old friends are fickle."
"Luna I'm getting a distinct feeling that you're giving entirely correct advice based on theories drawn out of thin air, however they seem to make loose sense. In other words you are a seer, correct?"
"Oh, you got it very fast Hadrian, most people just write it off as insanity, especially if they meet papa. Yes indeed I think we will be great friends, so long that is if you can avoid painting floors around me red, black is a much better colour for floors, or maybe blue. I'm seeing a potential for lots of blue floors soon, a few greens and many yellow, however red floors and me don't match."
"So no killing Gryffs around you then?" Asked Harry, oddly he was feeling quite calm about the whole, this seer could give away everything, thing.
"Correct, and you shouldn't worry so much, that's how nargles get in, plus even a twinkle cannot see into the threads of the future without losing lemon drops along the way."
After confirming this meant that Luna's mind could not be read by a leglimens, Harry decided that conversing with the strange girl- while entertaining- was not in keeping with his habit of reading as much as possible on the train; especially when there was no Ginger idiot that he had to pander to this year. Add this to a giant snake and a tame seer and Hadrian was feeling quite happy with himself.
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Upon reaching Hogwarts Hadrian decided he was having too many mood swings today and that it really needed dealing with. First they were meant to be taking horseless carriages to the school. Emphasis on the horseless there, however Hadrian saw winged skeletal horses, upon asking Hermione about said horses he just got a very strange look and a "What horses Harry?" deciding that asking someone in the know was the best idea, he figured he'd ask Hagrid. After all, creepy and potentially dangerous was right up Hagrid's street.
Then was the fact that it was raining, a little known fact about Hadrian was that he loved the rain, however getting wet means that, the glasses used to see through cover in water, and then whilst drying steam up. Upon realizing he went to a magic school and that they could probably fix his eyesight research on eyes went to the top of his list.
After mentally kicking himself for not thinking about his eyes sooner, Harry entered the great hall, which was hung with big black banners with the faces of the three dead Weasleys. This led to another hushed silence and whispered apologies about how people 'hadn't thought' 'didn't realise' and were 'so sorry' about his loss. This quickly got irritating fast, however there was a silver lining in that it assured him that nobody possibly thought that he had ended them. However these sorrowful comments were followed up with hushed giggles about the dreamy new teacher i.e. the mirrored menace who was entertainingly seated next to Severus Snape, who at that moment was looking absolutely thrilled to have to put up with princess twinkle toes all year round. Of course several trains of thought later and Hadrian was left wanting to either have himself obliviated or drown himself after the thought of 'opposites attract' appeared.
Then was his new stalker, clearly an untrained replacement for Weasley, another useless excuse for a wizard; Neville Longbottom, upon second consideration Hadrian found he wouldn't make a bad minion if he could deprogram him quickly enough. He knew enough about herbology to make a half decent poison supplier, or at the very least rare ingredient supplier for some of Hadrian's more dark potions. Helping him to raise his grades and confidence as well as his popularity should win his undying loyalty- that was how Gryffindors worked right? However in terms of minion collecting he managed to find two accidentally a muggleborn named Colin "Creepy" Creevey and a new red head- a Ginevra "Banshee Weasel" Weasley. It was at this point that Hadrian discovered that there was in reality a Harry Potter Fanclub and apparently Ginny Weasley had been a devout member since age three.
Adding into the chaos at the Gryffindor table Luna Lovegood joined the Gryffindor ranks, upon query answering "It takes courage to declare knowledge of death without fear to one declared as death by many" Overall the sorting was pretty awful for Hadrian.
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A chapter this time especially for Vivianne95 and Red05 my most loyal minions-sorry reviewers, next chapter will be the first week of second year.
Enjoy :) SuchaNarcissist